Quotes About Singular

Be different differently.

If you shoot with a billion cameras, then there's no perspective. You want to use one shot at a time, so it's better to discover what that is before you shoot, rather than trying to make something in the cutting room, and then it just becomes generic.

I like to be the only one who uses my toothbrush.

I'm not your usual cup of tea.

I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.

Contrary to what liberals like to believe sometimes, not everything populists say is necessarily demagogic or mendacious—but, ultimately, their self-presentations is based on one big lie: that there is a singular people of which they are the only representatives. To fight them, one needs to understand, and undermine, that core claim.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. —Coco Chanel

I'm the only millionaire zoologist there is.

I work differently than most people.

Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.

I don't think there's anyone who strikes like me in the world.

In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.

To be different is a gift. To be ordinary is common.

No one is ever ordinary.

I'm the original.

I was always different from all the other kids, and I was doing things that nobody else did or seemed to have any interest in.

I always feel like an outcast... it's just always been very different to everyone else.

To the anthropologist, there's no such thing as a singular episode, a singular phenomenon – only a set of variations on generic ones; the more generic, therefore, the more pure, the closer to an unvariegated or unscrambled archetype.

To the anthropologist, as I explained before, it's generic episodes and phenomena that stand out as significant, not singular ones. To the anthropologist, there's no such thing as a singular episode, a singular phenomenon—only a set of variations on generic ones; the more generic, therefore, the more pure, the closer to an unvariegated or unscrambled archetype.

I'm an acquired taste. I'm anchovies. If I was potato chips I could go more places.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

I have seen evil and I know its ploy: to steal your personhood, your singular God-given identity.

Others were just as singular and well traveled and full of promise. I felt I was in good hands.

Don't forget that everything you deal with is only one thing and nothing else.